Improvement in hinges for gates



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Improvement in Hinges for Gates. u N0.. 113,998. Patented April25,l8'7l.

A nmeexm W'mueeses of? M -W s dnii git-i125 GEORGE GARRETT, OF ELKHART, ILLINOIS,

Letters Patent No. 113,998, dated April 25, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN HINGES FOR GATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part bf the samg.

To all whom 'it may' concern Be it known that I, GEORGE GARRETT, of Elkhart, in the c ounty of Logan, State of illinois, haveinvented a newand useful Improvement in Gate-Hinges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make vand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved hinge, and

Figure 2 is a plan ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My invention relates to a hinge which may be easily and permanently attached to the gate; and to that end,

It consists in constructing the moving portion of the same in two parts, so arranged as to clasp around the post receiving the upper and lower rails of the gate, and connected laterally by bolts passing through their outerextremities, whereby the same are adj usted te the relative size of the post.

In the accompanying drawing- A is the shank of the hinge, which is permanently attached to or driven into the fixed post supporting the gate, and is provided with a pin or spindle, a, to receive the moving portion of the hinge in the ordinary manner.

B and B constitute the moving portions, which are made or bent ina rectangular form, as shown iu fig. 2,v and are provided at their outer extremities or intersection points with shanks O 'G O C', which are'so arranged as to be parallel eachewith ,the other.

The said shauks are provided laterally with apertures through which are passed screw-threaded bolts D D, by which the respective sections B and B are drawn firmly together and around the end'post of the gate.

The section B is bent outward at its.. center, and is provided vertically with an aperture which reoeives pin a of the fixed shank A, the whole of which is so arranged as to allow of a free and easy movement.

Having thus described my invention,

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe sections B and B' of the moving portions of a gate-hinge, arranged as described, and connected together around the gate-post by bolts D D, substantially as and for the purpose specilied.

The foregoing specification of my invention signed by me this 1st day of' March, A. D. 1871.

GEORGE GARRET'I.

Witnesses:

N. G. GRlDLEY, N. H. SHERBURNE. 

